If you haven’t read it and even you have already started practices,
we feel it would be helpful and suggest you read it next. It has some great t
ball drills for you to use.

Unless you know all the kids on your team, you are going to run into some
situations that will surprise you and where there is just nothing you can do.
Here is an example.

Our t ball team practiced once every week and played on
Saturdays. The league let everyone know ahead of time that was the schedule. I
had a boy on that team whose mom brought him to every practice.

Player Misses Games

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The practice before
the first game, she told me that “Johnny” was not going to make it to the game
on Saturday. In fact, she told me he would only make about every third game. She
was divorced and the boy spent many weekends with the dad.

The dad lived some
distance away, and was not going to bring him to games. There was nothing I
could do but say I looked forward to the games he could make. He had been doing
great with the t ball drills and I’m sure he was disappointed.

Also, when you are handed a team drawn out of a hat, you are going to have
some helpful parents and some not so helpful parents. In fact, you may get
parents who seldom bring their child to practice, or are always late for a game.

The one thing to always remember in these situations is it is not the child’s
fault. Do not limit his playing time because of his parents. It may not seem
fair to some of the other parents and players, but the child does not deserve
any different treatment than all the other players.

Have Players Arrive Early

Tell your parents to be at the game fifteen minutes early. In t ball, there
is no pre-game warm ups drills. You might have a little time to try and play
some catch, but no time for t ball drills.

Even though there is no warm ups, you
want to tell your parents to be there early, hoping that they at least won’t be
late.

And there will still be some players arriving late. Always happens. Again,
don’t punish the child because his parents ran late. Maybe ask the parents if
they lost their schedule, because they arrived after the starting time of the
game. They will get the hint.

Here are some tips to help the game run smoothly. When your team is up to bat,
always have your whole team sit on the bench in batting order. You will need a
mom or dad to be the bench coach and to keep them on the bench and in batting
order.

Kids are kids and if they are left unattended, they will jump up and
start running around. And if you have to have a search party every time a new
batter is due, it will be a long game.Another absolute must during a t ball game
is do not allow any child to have a bat in his hands until he is at home plate.

That’s right, no on deck circle needed in t ball. This is a safety caution
and probably should be the biggest rule you enforce. No bending whatsoever on
this rule.

Don’t Forget Snacks

And our last helpful tip for t ball games, always have someone bring snacks for
the players after the game. At this age kids will never ask you the score of the
game. Instead they want to know who brought the snacks.

And in this day and age there a few questions you will need to find out from
parents early on at practices. Do any of the children have food allergies? You
will be a hero to parents of kids with food allergies if you do get this
information to everyone.

And my last piece of advice for t ball coaches, relax. I was pretty uptight
my first year of coaching and really, there was no reason to be. Parents just
want their child to experience some t ball drills and games and to have some
fun. You will do just fine.

T Ball Drills Additional Resources

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